This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated policy responses
affected federal, state, and local government budgets. The pandemic raised federal deficits …

COVID-19 relief legislation offers a unique setting to study how political representation
shapes the distribution of federal assistance to state and local governments. We provide …

The study focuses on budget policy implementation at the level of local governments in
Slovakia in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The research problem focuses on …

We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional
representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all …

We analyze the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on state and local government finances,
with an emphasis on health spending needs and the role of the Medicaid program. We first …

We analyse whether US federal aid to state and local governments impacted economic
activity through either direct or cross-state spillover effects during the COVID-19 pandemic …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented levels of federal transfers to state
governments. Did this funding increase benefit incumbent politicians electorally? Identifying …

Our purpose is three-fold. First, we summarize some of the core insights from both classic
and more recent papers in the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in systems of …

We estimate whether large allocations of federal aid for state and local governments played
a role in advancing population testing for COVID-19 and the administration of vaccines. To …

Policymakers were surprised to find increases in sales tax revenues in 2020 due to
expectations that they would drop 8–20%. We investigate this puzzle and provide novel …